Torrence
Torrence is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 892nd, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 197381 births
- Best rank
- #892in 1973
- Since 1912
- 3,378people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,192 boys have been named Torrence in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1973, with 81 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1970s alone account for 22%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 186 girls have also been given it, 5.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Torrence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 53 | |
| 1920s | 53 | |
| 1930s | 35 | |
| 1940s | 56 | |
| 1950s | 145 | |
| 1960s | 346 | |
| 1970s | 712 | |
| 1980s | 556 | |
| 1990s | 468 | |
| 2000s | 357 | |
| 2010s | 335 | |
| 2020s | 76 |
In 1973, its biggest year
Torrence was the 892nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1973 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, James and David. See all of 1973.
Names that rose and fell with Torrence
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brantpeak 1970
- Dawaynepeak 1977
- Demetriospeak 1974
- Jobypeak 1977
- Marlonpeak 1972
- Rodrickpeak 1977
- Ronellpeak 1976
- Ronnellpeak 1993
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.